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“She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3dece9cd131c5045413fd7d79ba5310a330ed162f568b6ffc62cf5749e4707e9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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